Public Sphere As A Place Open

The Internet has been changing the world since it is created. As a part of new media, social media is a fundamental shift in the way we communicate. It has been helped to create a digital global village that 26% of the world’s population is using social media and the number is keep increasing. (Qualman, 2013) This essay will attempt to discuss how has the social media changed the public sphere, mainly focus on the improvement of public participation, social relations and information dissemination. Also Mainland China is taken as an example to show that social media enabling democracy in a developing country. Social media is also being used in good ways to spread information. There are some disadvantages to be analyzed, too. The issues like lack of privacy, social media violence and social media out of control will be discussed in this essay.

    In today’s modern time, social media has a huge impact on political environment. How the World Changed Social Media claims, “ Such political activity as there is on social media is usually at a national level and is conducted mainly by supporters…” (Miller 142,143). Social media presents a national level bias. During the last ten years, politics has gained much traction on these sites.  For example, campaigns for national

In the past ten years the way we as a people communicate has changed greatly. No longer is it uncommon for conversations to not be face to face and now more so than ever conversations take place through text. As with any change there will be and is push back to it. The conflict over the consequences of the social media dependent society have now intensified as a result of social media playing ever greater roles in how politics is seen and even conducted. This has been a major societal question since the presidential election of 2008 and the debate has been written about, discussed, and argued by thousands of different politicians,

Most everyone has some form of social media. Whether it be Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram people have a way of communicating and getting news from all around the world. Unfortunately, this news is not always correct or trustworthy. Many people are not attuned to reading long articles or papers and just want the short story. Social media readily gives them shortened and condensed stories one after the other. Therefore, “traditional media has to adapt to the audience’s new

Three major online communication websites are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. People can share millions of photos and interact with each other at a constant pace. But does these communication tools connect the people at all or disconnect them from public interaction. For instant, the Women March is one of the largest march this year that have also almost a million-people engaged in civic: “Organizers said Saturday they expect as many as a half million participants — potentially dwarfing Friday’s inaugural crowd” (The Washington Post). Half a million is quite large for a crowd in a small space like Washington D.C. to March. And most these people also signed up and being introduce through the Internet. But through online interaction can cause a disconnection among people because they didn’t develop a related relationship with each other and might lead to chaos. Another example is a man who tore off an anti-abortion poster that are offer to him by anti-abortion activist: “Daryle Jenkins, who came from Philadelphia to march today, was offered an ‘Abortion Betrays Women’ poster by a group of anti-abortion activists. So, he took it and tore it up in front of them” (The Washington Post). Did this man take it too far to show his belief? In my perspective, he did take it too far by tore it up in front of the people with difference view and this would make a good reason that American

In fact, the 2008 presidential election has even been coined as the “Facebook Election”. Although the concept of social media was still on the rise, social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube were not completely unaware of their role/leverage in American electoral politics. In fact, during the presidential campaign, each site found their own way to encourage users to discuss the election or issues contained

Monica Anderson and Andrea Caumont investigate how social media sites are reshaping the news and their effectiveness in engaging their audience. The authors posed five questions in their article, considering how social media users participate in and discover news, as well as the impact of social media on discussion of news events. Anderson and Caumont found that social media users are very likely to share news stories, discuss the events, and even share their own coverage of a news event. They also found that users often spend more time on a news site if they arrived there directly, rather than through a social media site. Finally, the authors state that social media can stifle one’s willingness to share their own opinion and discuss a news event. The authors obtained these conclusions by utilizing data from the Pew Research Center. This source is useful to my research topic as it sheds light on the ability of social media to encourage discussion of news stories.

According to Brian Williams, news anchor for NBC Nightly News and author of “Enough About You,” Americans have become oblivious to events and news going on that they aren’t particularly interested in, and social media only adds fuel to the fire. Even though the news is still concurrently viewed by millions of people, it’s nothing like it used to be. Regardless of the decline in viewers, Williams states that “we work every bit as hard as our television-news forebears did at gathering, writing and presenting the days news to a smaller audience” (473). Social media is integral part of everyday life that will not vanish for quite some time. While social media has its upsides, I feel that the downfalls are far

Social media can be seen from completely different aspects and points of views. A major role in these different opinions plays mostly the age of the beholder, because social media made an enormous change in the last 50 years. One very important aspect in our today’s society is to get as many information as possible in a very short time period ("Impacts of social media”) Through social media and especially social networks such as twitter and Facebook, the information gets spread extremely fast. There are for example reporters who search on those networks to get information for their news and articles. (“Impacts

This essay explores the different relationships between social media platforms and the government to provide insight into the different ways the government uses media masses to further their agendas and how its good business is used for political gain. This essay also discusses the different ideologies and fallacies individuals have of the media’s role in society. This essay wasn’t written to persuade one either way, but rather to bring the important relationship to light, so with better understanding people can make wiser decisions as voters, consumers or investors.

The almost omnipresent Internet transforms our lives, connecting us to family, friends, and the world in ways inconceivable only a few years ago. Through social media, we actively participate in creating, editing, and consuming a never-ending stream of data. Private corporations and protagonists of political or social change all vie to reach and engage highly targeted

This dissertation aims to identify and explore the use of the different social media platforms, focusing on the impact that the rise of social media has had on journalism practices. In addition, this paper will examine the public’s responses to the news that they receive through social media platforms. Examples of social media platforms that this dissertation will include are; ‘Twitter’, ‘Facebook’ and ‘YouTube’ as scholars claim that these are the most frequently used sites in the 21st century.

In less than two decades, social media has revolutionized modern communication and information sharing. What began as a simple form of social networking has turned into innumerable platforms for people around the globe to share ideas, create and share businesses, promote brands, read news from various sources, as well as share and find vast amounts of information, among many other uses. Thus, with a few clicks of a button, people are now able to interact with someone on the other side of the world. The capabilities created through social media’s many uses have forever changed global politics, business, and interpersonal communication.

Defining social media is a tricky task to do because of its constant change (Tess, 2013). Ober and Wildman have explained that social media involve a vast range of PC and mobile platforms which continue to develop constantly, launched and re-launched, abandoned also ignored daily in countries all over the world that consist of various forms of communication (Ober & Wildman, 2013). Although Facebook is “dominant’ face of social media (Tess, 2013) and twitter is one of the popular micro-blogging website (Tess, 2013), however in recent times, various social networking sites, blogs, wikis, multimedia platforms, virtual game

The term ‘social media’ has become a broad-term to describe a large number of online systems that serve as a platform for the generation, and distribution of user-generated content. Social media creates a virtual social space, where a large number of users come together and interact with one another. These interactions can be either structured, such as responses that are moderated on blogs, semi-structured, such as a discussion between an extended network on Facebook, or unstructured, such as the anarchial functioning of Twitter.